Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said this summer that the Warsaw Pact had to become a political rather than a military alliance . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the UK Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , in a speech to the House of Commons on Feb. 22 , said that reforms in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union were likely to transform NATO into a political rather than a military alliance . |
| 3 | Both before and after April 15 attempts continued , especially through the mediation of the Arab League , to find a solution to what was increasingly viewed as a political rather than a legal dispute , centring on whether Libya would agree to extradite two men indicted by the UK and US authorities in November 1991 in connection with the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing of a Pan Am airliner [ see p. 38599 for this and for separate French efforts to extradite other Libyans ] . |
| 4 | Your own historical writing and thinking will be expected to distinguish between fact and interpretation and between statements of a descriptive rather than an analytical kind . |
| 5 | Morphology was a descriptive rather than an experimental science , but it was conducted in the laboratory rather than the field and could thus be presented as a symbol of modernization . |
| 6 | A teacher can not hope to function as a normal communicative support system in most classroom interaction since it is a one-to-many rather than a one-to-one situation . |
| 7 | It is also said that Hinduism believes in an impersonal rather than a personal Deity . |
| 8 | Reference , in the textual rather than the semantic sense , occurs when the reader has to retrieve the identity of what is being talked about by referring to another expression in the immediate context . |
| 9 | She hesitated , then said that she would like that rather than a drink , if he really would n't mind . |
| 10 | The answer lies in part in the social position of the reformers who belonged to the professional rather than the employing middle class : they were social workers , teachers , social scientists , philosophers , clerics , doctors , and psychologists , the majority of whom were distanced from the realities of the labour-market . |
| 11 | It is essentially a technical rather than a moral problem . |
| 12 | Following a tradition dating from Searle ( 1975 ) , Ryan emphasises the illocutionary rather than the ontological dimension of fictionality , and devises a formula aimed to capture the essence of what she calls the " fictional transaction " . |
| 13 | Most Asian and Afro-Caribbean men and women were drawn into low-paid occupations which placed them at the lower rather than the upper limits of these widening inequalities . |
| 14 | Importantly , quality costing is a collaborative rather than a competitive process in which the participants in the transaction share a common analytical framework , exchange information and recognize their mutual inter-dependence with the overall company strategy . |
| 15 | Some sources have a subtle rather than a very strong and obvious bias . |
| 16 | They estimate its thickness at between 100 and 400 m , and suggest that all the observations are consistent with its having a low rather than a high velocity . |
| 17 | The audience , through the music , were beginning to laugh , and Busacher , sacrificing one of Lehar 's most romantic and loveliest passages of music to the emergency of the moment , speeded up the orchestra , gave the melody a light-hearted rather than a passionate lilt , and swore to himself that he would murder Gesner in the interval . |
| 18 | Whether or not his opinions actually percolated down to subordinate commanders many of them seemed to share his beliefs about keeping the French out , or at least , in an interesting reversal of roles in the First World War , treating France as an associated rather than an allied power . |
| 19 | The holiday pendulum swung unambiguously towards entertainment rather than worthiness , the just about respectably raucous rather than the recreationally rational . |
| 20 | It was a devotional rather than a theological work . |
| 21 | A Militant councillor , Willie Griffin , accused Labour rather than the Government of forcing through the closures , adding that the £172,000 that would be saved annually from the Faskally closure was ‘ paltry ’ . |
| 22 | The elections were to be held in accordance with the 1989 Taif accord [ see p. 36986 ] , although the new electoral law approved on July 16 increased the number of deputies to be elected to 128 rather than the 108 laid down in the Taif accords [ see also amendment of election law pp. 38214 ; 38311 ] . |
| 23 | But this again was an administrative rather than a policy-making body . |
| 24 | It is a policy profoundly opposed by the national Football Supporters Association ( FSA ) which recruits its members on a regional rather than a club basis and which aims to unite its fans in their love for the game rather than in their narrower club devotions . |
| 25 | In an attempt to preserve their authority , the Chiefs amended the Constitution — which was already heavily biased in favour of the rural rather than the urban population — so that only five of the 37 Melanesian lower chamber seats were allocated to the urban areas , where approximately one-third of the Melanesian population lived . |
| 26 | For example , it is predicted that certain kinds of ‘ life strategies ’ will be found most commonly in people in whom particular corresponding moods or emotions predominate , and that the more general the strategies are , the stronger their association will be with the emotional rather than the intellectual characteristics of the person . |
| 27 | The second group is concentrated among a particular section of the middle class — those in the private rather than the public sector , and among those who are not graduates . |
| 28 | Indeed , comparison of managerial facilities and perquisites in the public and private sectors ( such as office furnishings , secretarial support , company cars , expense accounts , etc ) suggest that ‘ it is the private rather than the public sector that offers greater possibilities for at least these kinds of non-pecuniary consumption ’ ( Breton and Wintrobe , 1982 , p. 77 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Because the issue was public against private rather than the relationship between private and public , Britain has suffered from a less than fully productive public sector and a less than fully responsible private sector , neither of which were satisfactory engines for growth . |
| 30 | Criminal laws aimed at regulating corporate activities tend to refer to a specific rather than a general class of behaviour . |